My mother was subdued and seemed unable to another two days to pry the story of the ordeal she
out of her. She had been driven about 35 miles from Ogwashi-Ukwu to a forest and walked into a clearing with a small and legs were bound, and she sat and slept on bare small hill while her captors-four young men-sta
fed only a sausage roll and water for the entire wee below from Ogwashi-Ukwu hilly rise. Her arms, She tried to engage the young men in she was abducted. The kidnappers gave her two conversation and asked to refused to pay oil marketers, and she did not pay not dare settle with a cartel of fraudulent oil country of billions of kilometres who were intent on defrauding under the oil-subsidy program and to pay. But she was not familiar heard me speak about it but they did not elaborate. My mother was aware of my battle with a cartel oE-Ph
subsidy program and whom the government had naira with SURE-P because she had known "I asked them what SURE-P was,".
Essentially, the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Proors (SURE-P) was designed to recycle money saved from phasing oil subsidy to public works, the social safety net, and other and to use it to build infrastructure that benefits the less educated the program was for unemployed, women, and people with disabilities. The in by a specially dedicated task force outside of the Finance Minis with separate payment mechanisms outside my purview. It appeared that someone or some people had not been paid whatever they that was not even my responsibility usually three left at night, leaving behind only one of them as felt was their due and that my mother was being punished partly for something My mother said that the four men guarded her together all day but She tried again and again to engage them, not very successfully, in conversation. She noticed that one spoke Igbo, our language, in a dialect that was clearly from our hometown. He seemed familiar with our customs and greeted my mother with our traditional greetings.
But beyond that, he refused to engage and was unfriendly. Another spoke lgbo like someone from neighboring Anambra state, she thought. She could not figure out where the other two young men were from but thought one looked and sounded like a northerner. She overheard them speaking frequently on the phone, describing her condition and taking instructions.